Wednesday, 16 October 2013

If you would like to buy anything please email me at craftyk86@gmail.com and tell me the name/number of the item you want! I will combine postage on multiple items. All payments must be made through Paypal.

Sunday, 13 October 2013

Sorry I haven't been so inactive, actually I completely dropped off the face of the earth! After my op things returned to normal and I haven't had any time to craft, sadly I don't think I will have much time to craft at all in the next few months as we are moving house. I also write another blog which is taking priority at the moment, so my hope of returning to crafting more is unlikely! :(

Anyway I wanted to come back and announce the winner, I'm a month late! SORRY! Anyway without further a do, the winner is .........................

Saturday, 14 September 2013

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Morning beauties!

Can you believe it's Wednesday already?!? This week is flying in! Today I am bringing you some celebratory candy, and in case your wondering what I am celebrating, well it's quite simple, I am simply celebrating my return to crafting. I am really enjoying being back, I forgot what a lovely community it is and how fun it is to just colour and stick! So my candy will run until the 14th of September 2013, all deets on how to enter are below, but first let me walk you through the candy .....

** CANDY **

1 Pack of Adhesive Pearls

1 Stampendous Frantage, Shabby White Embossing Enamel

1 Lovely little "Honey" by Saturated Canary

3 meters of Ribbon

4 Pearly Pop Craft Decorative Handmade Pins

The pins on offer have been handcrafted by moi! I love making them so have decided to start selling them, so I thought I'd pop a few in with the giveaway, but if you would like to buy some of your own, you can find them in my NEWLY opened Etsy storethey make a great addition to your cards, lots of colours will be available! More Pins & other items will be added in the next few days/weeks!

Monday, 12 August 2013

I'm back with another card, this one has taken me a few days, my cousin kindly gave me a borrow of her mini sewing machine, I was going to buy one but she offered me hers to see how I liked it and I am loving it! I tried a little sewing around the edges of the square background card to practice and I really like the effect it gave. You can't really see it in these pics though.

I am going to be entering this card into the Simply Magnolia Challenge, this week it's a sketch, and a blooming good one, so here's my card . . .

My lighting is pretty pants, I have a daylight that I use for taking pics but its always a little reflective! I am using my latest purchase - Gift from Heaven Tilda, I'm in lurve! She is such a sweetie! I have coloured her using TH distress inks. I also put some white Frantage embossing powder around her, I added a little too much this time so I'll be more cautious next time.

My card blanks are from Craftwork Cards, I have seen loads of these shaped cards, but I know that many of them are created by the big go create dies, sadly I don't have a die cutting machine big enough for those dies so I had to improvise in order to get my papers the same shape and size. So, I drew around the card blank on the back of my design papers and carefully cut it out and then stuck it to the card blank, it turned out great, well I think so!

I ordered some more stash goodies from the Ribbon girl on Sunday night so I am hoping that they arrive tomorrow along with a few Tilda's that I won on eBay. I love getting post but I really must stop spending or I will have no money left to put supper on the table!

Saturday, 10 August 2013

Today is my first EVER DT card, I am so excited to have joined the team over at Sweet Stampin, my first official week should have been 2 weeks ago but as my gallbladder decided to to spoil the fun I was unable to take part in the balls challenge.

ANYWAY enough about me! Moving on, this week over at the Sweet Stampin challenge blog the theme isKRAFT!We want to see creations made using some sort of Kraft card on your projects. Interpret that how you wish but you MUST use KRAFT!

Our sponsor this week is Cuddly Buddly and our Monthly sponsor is the Ribbon Girl, go check it out and get creating :)

I didn't have any Kraft card in my stash, so it was the perfect excuse to buy some new card blanks from Craftwork Cards that I had been eyeing up, and this is what I have come up with . . .

I love this little image. I picked her up from my local craft store about 6 weeks ago, I don't own any other crafter companion stamps but I think I may invest in a few more because they are adorable. I coloured her using Pro Markers & TH Distressed Inks.

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Nicola's Candy

About Me

Hello I'm Kirsty and I live in Scotland with my Husband, I love card making and crafty things, I took a break from crafts for a while and I've just returned and I am hooked once more! Please be sure to stop by often and leave your comments x